68 Entrepreneur Quotes for Success

Entrepreneurship can be tough and sometimes you might feel like you won’t see the fruits of your labor. Here is a list of inspirational and motivational quotes about entrepreneur that will boost your confidence so that you can lead your business with determination and passion.

68 Entrepreneur Quotes

1. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” – Anonymous

2. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

3. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

4. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie

5. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

6. “Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

7. “History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” – B.C. Forbes

8. “Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” – Anonymous

9. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

10. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

11. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.” – Henry Ford

12. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

13. “Remember why you started.” – Anonymous

14. “There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

15. “Success…seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

16. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs

17. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

18. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

19. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

20. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

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21. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” – Paulo Coelho

22. “Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!” – Richard E. Grant

23. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

25. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

26. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca

27. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

28. “Sometimes success isn’t about making the right decision, it’s more about making some decision.” – Robin Sharma

29. “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.” – John Rockefeller

30. “Number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill

31. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

32. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

33. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

34. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” – Swami Vivekananda

35. “You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.” – Jim Rohn

36. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

37. “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” – Benjamin Franklin

38. “Ideas are worthless without the execution; execution is pointless without the ideas.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

39. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

40. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

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41. “Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.” – William Rosenberg

42. “Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.” – Mark Cuban

43. “Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.” – Mark Cuban

44. “Most people think it’s all about the idea. It’s not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.” – Mark Cuban

45. “There no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

46. “You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired.” – Ken Field

47. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

48. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

49. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” – Adam Osborne

50. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson

51. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

52. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

53. “Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.” – Chinese Proverb

54. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

55. “Don’t get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.” – Mark Cuban

56. “Life shrinks and expands on the proportion of your willingness to take risks and try new things.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

57. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

58. “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison

60. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein

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61. “Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” – Napoleon Hill

62. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” – Thomas Fowell Buxton

63. “If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.” – Swami Vivekananda

64. “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle

65. “It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once.” – Mark Cuban

66. “Skills are cheap, passion is priceless.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

67. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

68. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

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